DCHP-1 Online
brushman 
n. a legendary Indian living in solitude in the woods.
- 1949 Some brushmen were the survivors of bands of Indians which had been nearly exterminated by starvation, living on alone after all the others had succumbed. . . . Ibid. 112: She had been afraid it was a "brushman" trapping ground squirrels.
- 1949 Some brushmen were the survivors of bands of Indians which had been nearly exterminated by starvation, living on alone after all the others had succumbed. . . . Ibid. 112: She had been afraid it was a "brushman" trapping ground squirrels.